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Welcoming the Stranger (Brian Field)
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
In 1997 the Colorado Jewish Federation undertook a demographic study of the Denver-Boulder Jewish population. It discovered an affiliation rate of around 30%. In other words, a majority of Jews were, in effect, strangers in our own community.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/including-stranger
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:39pm
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Being the Stranger (Doris Dyen)
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/being-stranger
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:54pm
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When Family Are Strangers (Gail Shuster-Bouskila)
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
My late brother was the “stranger” in my life. We were born on the same day two years apart but were so vastly different. It isn’t just the end of his life which sets us apart, it was his personality and the way he lived that made him a conundrum to me. He held responsible jobs for most of his life in spite of constantly fighting depression. Medication was helpful until it wasn’t and had to be adjusted. Those periods were fraught with anxiety and tension for him as well as for me and our family.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/when-family-are-strangers
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:59pm
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God Loves the Stranger: Introduction
God Loves the Stranger
—Deuteronomy 10:18
When I take these words deeply into my being, my flesh and blood, there is enormous relief. I am no longer struggling to protect the limited ideas I have about who I am. I am no longer projecting endlessly limited ideas of who you are. I am free. No one is a stranger. Everyone including my so-called enemies is an infinitely complex and precious creature. My labels, categories, and strategies to protect myself from them are paltry in comparison with their sacred mystery.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/god-loves-stranger-introduction
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 4:09pm
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The Shofar and the Tears of Our Mothers
(from God Loves the Stranger)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/shofar-and-tears-our-mothers
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 4:14pm
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Herring and Havdalah
(from God Loves the Stranger)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/herring-and-havdalah
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 4:22pm
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Yom Kippur at Lincoln Memorial
(from God Loves the Stranger)
Today is a day of repentance, renewal, and solidarity.
Repentance in Hebrew is T’shuvah, which means turning and returning—making an about-face.
It is a most treasured human gift.
One who turns around and heads in the right direction Is respected and appreciated.
Indeed, when we say that we are lost, it is often the beginning of the journey home.
The Source of Life, the Divine Beloved, calls us to return, calls us to T’shuvah, again and again.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/yom-kippur-lincoln-memorial
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 4:46pm
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What Are You Asking For?
(A guided meditation on Psalm 27, from God Loves the Stranger: Stories, Poems, Prayers)
One thing I ask of Adonai, only that do I seek.
Imagine if you could ask one thing of Adonai.
Imagine if reality, life, all the power and resources in existence could grant you one thing and one thing alone.
(Pause) Take a few deep belly breaths.
For this moment let your thoughts float freely.
What would it be?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/what-are-you-asking-meditation-psalm-27
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 5:15pm
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Psalm 27 Interpretation
לְדָוִ֨ד ׀ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ אוֹרִ֣י וְ֭יִשְׁעִי מִמִּ֣י אִירָ֑א יְהוָ֥ה מָֽעוֹז־חַ֝יַּ֗י מִמִּ֥י אֶפְחָֽד׃
Awareness is sunlight in the mind. No one can take that from me. Awareness is my life’s stronghold. It absorbs all fear.
בִּקְרֹ֤ב עָלַ֨י ׀ מְרֵעִים֮ לֶאֱכֹ֪ל אֶת־בְּשָׂ֫רִ֥י צָרַ֣י וְאֹיְבַ֣י לִ֑י הֵ֖מָּה כָשְׁל֣וּ וְנָפָֽלוּ׃
The hindrances and defilements are as close as my flesh and mind, but they dissolve in the light of being known.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/psalm-27
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 12:21am
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Further Resources on Embracing the Stranger - Interpersonal
We’d like to offer these further pieces from Ritualwell.org and Jewishrecon.org on embracing the stranger face-to-face.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/read-more
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 12:14pm
